Best and Worst Accents

mopspear

Member
I worked as an ESL teacher for a long time and still kind of do. I don't dislike how Vietnamese sounds but it's got to be the toughest accent to understand for my American English ears. I didn't have a ton of students from Vietnam but I remember one specific incident: I never really had trouble understanding anyone (and I've taught over 600 different students) but I had one Vietnamese student where I had this sudden panic like "I have no idea what this man is saying." I just had to do my best without lying about my understanding of the conversation.

In terms of dislike, I don't like hearing American women's accents, especially strong accents from the southeast or northeast. Living in one and being from the other exposed me to them too much. Good thing my wife isn't from here (for many reasons!).
 

AJUMP23

Parody of actual AJUMP23
You should start by being funny and go from there.
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I will take your suggestion under consideration.
 

Peggies

Gold Member
Switzerland, Austria, Australia potatos potatoes. I just like to point out that we don't sound like the woman in "Dumb and Dumber". She sounds more eastern european.

We sound like this

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(I don't)
 

jufonuk

not tag worthy
Anyone like the sarf east larndarn accent ?
That’s my one innit.


I’m not as south London as this guy:




Maybe I am a bit Kent also. Anyway.
 
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SlimySnake

Flashless at the Golden Globes
Best would have to be posh english. Cockney/chav english sounds retarded. Australians are tolerable but it sounds like they are overdoing it.

Irish women the way they speak is so sexy to me but the men sound like complete buffoons. Especially that chap who was talking about freezing to death while waiting for a school bus.

Americans aside from southerners and some hispanic, asian, and black kids raised in the ghetto all sound the same to me. I cant tell midwsterners or new yorkers apart, but apparently there is a big difference. I dont get it. Still, id rather listen to american ghetto english than chav english. Thats just plain torture.
Worst: Indian and Chinese.
This. The worst part is that the indians have embraced it and its worsened in the past few decades. Like, no you dont own the language. be better.

Chinese/asianalso sounds just plain wrong. Playing AC Shadows right now and everyone is talking with an asian accent and i swear i cant take them seriously. Switched to japanese and my goodness, what a wonderful sounding language. Filled with gravitas for men, and just the right amount of femininity from women. But the moment they start speaking English with an accent, good god. But at least its not as embarrassing an indians speaking english.
 
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dave_d

Member
Boston accent is pretty abrasive, it's essentially a bastardized english accent
What are you talking about? Those of us here in Mass have no accent at all. Hell, here's a video of a guy who supposedly has a "Boston Accent".




I've listen to him, there's no accent. Now if you will excuse me I need to go out and get a frappe.
 

pachura

Member
I love Scottish accent

Also, it's kinda fun discovering how people of different nationalities mispronounce English words... The Japanese freely replace "r" with 'l" and vice versa; The French do not pronounce "h"; The Spanish change "v" into "b" and "g" into "h", etc. And my Vietnamese colleague does not pronounce consonants at the end of each word, which is super annoying sometimes
 

RSLAEV

Member
Best: Yorkshire
Worst: I don't know what it's called but I've come to associate it with black women who live in London (I could be wrong, never been to England) it's just very chunky and masculine and hard for me to listen to. I also have a hard time with the version of Austrailian accent that's very "uptalky" That one makes me nauseous if I listen to it for too long.
 
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